Sony and Nintendo sued over patent infringement
- Posted January 11th, 2008 at 10:59 EDT by
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Sony seems to always be right smack dab in the middle of patent infringement lawsuits. After the famous Immersion lawsuit that caused Sony to remove rumble capabilities from their Dualshock 2 controllers, the company couldn’t have been any more embarrassed.
Enter, Copper Innovations Group. According to a patent filed in western Philadelphia in 1996, Copper had patented a device labeled as a, "Hand Held Computer Input Apparatus and Method." Copper is claiming that the Sixaxis and Blu-ray remote, along with the Nintendo Wii remote and nunchuck device is in direct violation of their patent and has filed a lawsuit against both companies over the matter.
The small group of innovators are seeking not only damages plus interest, but also legal fees and an injunction permanently prohibiting Sony (and Nintendo) from releasing products that infringe upon the patent.
Sony representatives have not commented on the situation. However, after Immersion won USD 100 million dollars from the last affair Sony went through, it’s no surprise that other companies are trying for a huge payday as well.
Source: Gamespot
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kidkotic2001 |
hotshot2001- 11:03am GMT - January 11th, 2008
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Man I like both of these companies I feel bad for them.
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Triple Dk |
TripleDk- 11:10am GMT - January 11th, 2008
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Lol. The description is about hand held thingys that can interact with a computer, AKA every single controller, keyboards, mice, etc in the world! (What picture?) And then they have to sue Sony and Nintendo, even years after they showed their stuff to the public!!! Besides, doesn't patent stuff expire after 10 years? Or is it 25?
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Dmanishigh
- 11:16am GMT - January 11th, 2008
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I think it's stupid because the pictures look like a wireless mouse.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 11:19am GMT - January 11th, 2008
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How,can the Blu-ray remote be included the infringement?As far as i know it's just a blue-tooth remote.These days any company would try to make a quick buck by making false acquisitions on big companies,who'll undoubtedly kick their a55.
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Staticneuron |
Staticneuron- 11:39am GMT - January 11th, 2008
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Its like immersion all over again. Vague patents for the win, I guess.
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Sunshine_Killer |
SunshineKiller- 12:12pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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its not even a computer device. the guy is just greedy and is to late to sue when these things have been out for a year now and have been in development for longer. He shouldve known. Its like he just woke up or something. Sony and Nintendo will win this.
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motzo
- 12:17pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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i think they are talking about the motion senstive stuff guys but this is jsut stupid you cant just say YOU big comanies cant use this beaucse you small ones dont have achance of acturly getting it out into the world you will destory the gamming world if you just hogg all the ideas from the ones who share them with eveyr one else then never share them your selves faaags if you cared at all about gamming and this kind of technology YOU WOULD NOT KEEP IT FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD
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Tha_Last_Romeo |
Tha_Last_Romeo- 12:24pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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It doesn't matter... Their product is for a computer... Not a Gaming console nor a blu-ray player! That is half the battle right there!
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Wintee |
bluedotred- 12:26pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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Ach this is all nonsense.
I worse for a major hardware company. They're suing each other all the time. It's part and parcel of the job.
This seems like one of those times where some two-bit company buys up some vague tech-patent and tries to sue the big boys, hoping for a quick out-of-court settlement and a nice wee profit.
Nothing to worry about I do declare.
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ironflag55555 |
ironflag555- 1:36pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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hope sony isnt stubborn like with immerssion going head on.. its always small weak companys who aint got sh!t to show for... i guess missery needs company -.-
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jamisonsalamande
- 3:23pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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Companies these days are all d***** bags. They complain about f**king everything, and you can't do anything without someone crying about it legally.
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D3v1lwqer23
- 4:07pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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So wait, a all this time and they are just NOW going after Sony and Nintendo, WTF is this BS?
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reccodog |
reccodog- 4:19pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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MICROSOFT!!!! Microsoft put this small company up to sueing the best company in the world!! Thats why there not sueing M$!!!
Heres how it works...
Micorosft uses its hacking programs and plants a fake patent there for giving this small company the rights to sue poor ol' Sony!
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Michael2k5 |
Nemphiz- 4:20pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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This is easy to deal with, pay some hitman to whack the guy and everybody related to this matter lol
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DnA19
- 5:05pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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the U.S goverment sucks, where else can you think of something and get to sue someone if they made something close to it. like we all don't have any brains of our own, and we couldn't think of the same damm thing. you should have to make your product first, then if someone copies it , then you could sue. what a bunch of lazy greedy bastards in the USA.
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Naucious23 |
Naucious- 6:08pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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I dont see why people get sued for thinking the same thing that some other person did just to make a quick buck. How does sony know that such a small company like that was going to produce something similar to what they already did. Thats crazy, they have to put it out first in order to sue and by the looks of things they didnt put out sh_t
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 9:11pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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They probably invented the wheel too, just forgot to file a patent.
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Fijiandoce |
Fijiandoce- 9:38pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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SMALL!!!! who are Copper Innovations Group?.....hope sony nd nintendo win.....
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roguesangel
- 12:59am GMT - January 12th, 2008
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it's too bad. every one is trying to capatilize off of the big companies. both companies are really good to.
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ohshutyourmouth |
ohshutyourmouth- 1:02am GMT - January 12th, 2008
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.....people always sueing over the stupidest things.....there just tryin to get rich why didnt they sue alone time ago when the dual shock first came out.?
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nastanley
- 7:02am GMT - January 12th, 2008
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i can't belive this, what is the matter with all these companies. I hope sony and nintendo win this case. I am sure for once sony and nintendo will have to put their heads together in order to combat this lawsuit, and hopefully this might be the begin of one of the greatest reunion in the history of video game; Sony and Nintendo releasing a one console together or maybe a game combining all nintendo characters and some prominent sony characters to symbolise their victory. I know, I know, thisis just a dream. lol
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